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    A
  1. Abacus
  2. Abscissa
  3. Absolute Value
  4. Abundant Numbers
  5. Accumulate
  6. Accurate
  7. Achiral
  8. Acre
  9. Acute
  10. Ada, Computer Language
  11. Add
  12. Addend
  13. Adjacent
  14. Aeon
  15. Affine Geometry
  16. Agnesi's Witch curve
  17. Ahmes Papyrus
  18. Alabama Paradox - voting
  19. Alchemy
  20. Aleph-Null
  21. Algebra
  22. Algebraic Numbers
  23. Algorithm
  24. Aliquot Parts
  25. "All Models are Wrong" quote
  26. Altitude
  27. Altitude of triangle, Properties
  28. Amblygon
  29. Amicable Numbers or Pairs
  30. Amplitude
  31. Analemma
  32. Analogy
  33. Angle
  34. Angle Bisectors in a Triangle
  35. Angstrom (unit of length)
  36. Annual
  37. Annulus
  38. Annus Mirabilis - Newton's Miracle Year
  39. Anode - creation of the term
  40. Antares
  41. Antecedent
  42. Anti-Center
  43. Antiparallel
  44. Aphelion
  45. Apoapsis
  46. Apogee
  47. Apollonius Gasket
  48. Apollonius Point
  49. Apollonius Problem
  50. Apothem
  51. Apportionment
  52. Approval Voting
  53. Apse
  54. Apside
  55. Arbelos
  56. Arc
  57. Archimedes Square Dissection Puzzle
  58. Arc Sine or Sin-1
  59. Are
  60. Area
  61. Argand Diagrams
  62. Argument
  63. Arithmetic
  64. Arithmetical Frames; (old teaching devices)
  65. Arithmetic Books, Early American
  66. arithmetic Books, First North American
  67. Arrive
  68. Asses' Bridge
  69. Associative
  70. Astroid
  71. Astronaut
  72. Astronomical Unit / AU
  73. Asymptote
  74. Atlas
  75. Atom
  76. Aubel's Theorem
  77. Average
  78. Avoirdupois
  79. Axiom
  80. Axis

  81. B
  82. Babylonian Square Root Method
  83. Bacon, Francis; stained glass at Wren Library, Cambridge
  84. Bakhshali Manuscript
  85. Barometer
  86. Barrow, Isaac; stained glass at Trinity Chapel, Cambridge
  87. Barycenter
  88. Baryon
  89. Base
  90. Bayes' Theorem
  91. Bell Curve
  92. Bell's Numbers or Bell Numbers
  93. Benford's Law
  94. Bernoulli's Golden Theorem
  95. Bernoulli Numbers
  96. Bertrand's Postulate (a prime between n and 2n)
  97. The Big Bang
  98. bi-gon (two sided polygon?)
  99. Billion
  100. Bimedian of Quadrilateral
  101. Binary Numbers
  102. Binomial
  103. Binomial Coefficients
  104. Bisect
  105. Bisectors (ANGLE) in a Triangle
  106. Blackboard, History of
  107. Additional notes on History of Blackboards and slates
  108. Bode's Law
  109. Bounds and Butts (land measure)
  110. Borda Voting
  111. Borrow (in Subtraction)
  112. Bottle Imp Paradox
  113. Bowditch Curves
  114. Box Plot
  115. Brachystochrone
  116. "Bracket X", or Bracket Function
  117. Brahmagupta's Formula
  118. Brahmagupta's Identity on the sums of two squares
  119. Brahmagupta's Multiplication method
  120. Butts and Bounds (land measure)
  121. The Bride's Chair
  122. Bridge of Asses
  123. Brocard's Problem
  124. Bruns Constant
  125. Bureau

  126. C
  127. C, symbol for Radians
  128. Caduceus
  129. Calculate / Calculus
  130. Calendar
  131. Camera / Camera obscura
  132. Cardinal
  133. Cardinality
  134. Carat
  135. Cardioid
  136. Caret
  137. Carmichael Numbers
  138. Carnot's Theorem
  139. Carroll's Logic Diagrams (by Lewis Carroll)
  140. Carry (arithmetic)
  141. Casting out nines
  142. Casting out elevens
  143. Catalan Numbers
  144. Catenary
  145. Cathetus
  146. Cathode - creation of the term
  147. Cauchy distribution
  148. Ceiling Function,
  149. Census
  150. Center
  151. Centroid or Center of Gravity
  152. Century
  153. Ceres
  154. Cesaro-Stolz Theorem
  155. Ceva's Theorem
  156. Cevian
  157. Chain or Gunter's Chain
  158. Chain Reaction
  159. Chaos
  160. Check
  161. Check methods for arithmetic
  162. Chebyshev's theorem.(a prime between n and 2n)
  163. Chie-no-ita, Chinese puzzle
  164. Chilihedron
  165. Chinese Checkers
  166. Chinese Postman's Problem
  167. Chinese Square Root Method
  168. Chiral
  169. Chi Square
  170. Choose
  171. Chord
  172. Circle
  173. Circuit
  174. Circulate Numbers
  175. Circumcenter
  176. Circumcircle
  177. Circumference
  178. Circumscribe
  179. Class
  180. cloff, commercial discount
  181. Clue
  182. Coefficient
  183. Collatz's Problem
  184. Collinear
  185. Combinations
  186. Commandino's Theorem
  187. Commutative
  188. Compass
  189. Complementary
  190. Complete Graph
  191. Complete Oriented Graph
  192. Complex Fraction
  193. Complex Numbers
  194. Component
  195. Composite & Compound
  196. Compute
  197. Concurrent
  198. Concyclic
  199. Condorcet Voting
  200. Cone
  201. Confidence Interval
  202. Confounding Variables (statistics)
  203. Congruent
  204. Conic Section
  205. Conic Surface
  206. Conjecture
  207. Conjugate
  208. Conjugate Angles
  209. Consequent
  210. Constant
  211. Contact Triangle
  212. Continuous
  213. Converse
  214. Convex
  215. Coordinates
  216. Corollary
  217. Correct
  218. Correlation
  219. Correlation Coefficient
  220. Cosecant
  221. Cosine
  222. Cosines, Law of
  223. Cosine Circle (2nd Lemoine)
  224. Cosmic Rays
  225. Cosmos
  226. Coss and Cossists
  227. Cotangent
  228. Cotes, Roger; stained glass at Trinity Chapel, Cambridge
  229. Counting Boards
  230. Counting Numbers
  231. Crafoord Mathematical Prize
  232. Cramer's Rule
  233. Crescent
  234. Critical Points
  235. Cube
  236. Cube roots, by hand
  237. Cuisenaire rods
  238. Cumulative
  239. Curator
  240. Curtate Cycloid
  241. Cusp
  242. Cybernetics
  243. Cyclic Quadrangles (Quadrilateral)
  244. Cycloid
  245. Cylinder
  246. Cylindrical Projection, MAP

  247. D
  248. Dart, type of quadrilateral
  249. Data/Datum
  250. Dean
  251. Decade
  252. Des Cartes' Circle Thm
  253. Decimal Fractions
  254. Decimal Point & Decimal Comma
  255. Decimal Repeat Bar
  256. Decrease
  257. Degree
  258. Degrees, Why 360 in a circle?
  259. de Gua's Theorem.
  260. Deltoid
  261. Denominator
  262. Derangement
  263. Derivative
  264. Derive
  265. Determinant
  266. Deviation
  267. Devil's Curve
  268. Diagonal
  269. Diagram
  270. Diameter
  271. Diamond
  272. Dice / Die
  273. Dido's Problem
  274. Difference
  275. Difference symbol "~"
  276. Digit
  277. Digital Root
  278. Digon (two sided polygon?)
  279. Dimension
  280. Di-graph or Directed Graph
  281. Discount
  282. Discriminant
  283. Distance
  284. Divide
  285. Dividend
  286. Divide, Symbols for
  287. Divisor
  288. divisor function, sigmakn
  289. Dodecagon
  290. Dodecahedron
  291. Domain
  292. Dollar
  293. Dollar Symbol $
  294. Dot as symbol for multiplication
  295. Double Dummy
  296. Dozen
  297. Drawers of Dirichlet
  298. Droz-Farny Theorem
  299. Duplation and Mediation

  300. E
  301. e for 2.71828...
  302. East
  303. Edge
  304. Egyptian Multiplication
  305. Einstein's Biggest Blunder
  306. Electricity
  307. Electron
  308. Ellipse
  309. Ellipsis
  310. Ellipsoid
  311. Empty Set
  312. Enantiomorphic
  313. End of proof symbol,
  314. Early American Math Textbooks
  315. Eon
  316. Eocene
  317. Eohippus
  318. Equal
  319. = , Equal Symbol
  320. Equation
  321. Equiangular
  322. Equilateral
  323. Equivalent
  324. Ether
  325. Euclid's Algorithm at Cut-the-Knot
  326. Euler Circuits
  327. Euler Line
  328. Euler Path or Circuit
  329. Euler's Planer Graph Theorem (proof) V+F=E+2
  330. Excenter and Excircle
  331. Explementary
  332. Exponent
  333. Extrapolate

  334. F
  335. Factor & Factorial
  336. Factoring (as in "factoring a quadratic")
  337. Fagnano's Problem
  338. Fair division of Assets and Obligations, Discrete Math Notes
  339. February
  340. Fermat Point
  341. Fermat's Last Theorem
  342. Fermat's Little Theorem
  343. Feuerbach's Circle
  344. Fibonacci's Identity on the sums of two squares
  345. Fibonacci's Sequence
  346. Fields Medal
  347. First
  348. Floor Function,
  349. Focus
  350. Forest (planer graph)
  351. Formula
  352. Forty, (why there is no "U" in,)
  353. Four
  354. Fourth Proportional
  355. Fractal
  356. Fraction
  357. Fractional Exponents
  358. Fraction Bar
  359. Frequency
  360. Friday
  361. Friendly Numbers
  362. Frustum
  363. Function
  364. Fundamental Counting Theorem
  365. Furlong (length)

  366. G
  367. Galaxy
  368. Galley method of Division
  369. Gallon
  370. Gallows Function,
  371. Gamma Function
  372. President Garfield's Pythagorean Proof
  373. Gas
  374. Gaudi Magic Square
  375. Gauging
  376. Gelosie Multiplication
  377. Geoboard
  378. Geocenter
  379. Geometric Mean
  380. Geometry
  381. Geometry, Royal Road to?
  382. Gergonne Point / Triangle
  383. Gibbous (phases of moon)
  384. Gilbert, Unit of measure
  385. Girard's Thm
  386. Gnomen
  387. Googol
  388. Gougu Rule
  389. Grad - angle measurement
  390. Grade (of road, etc.)
  391. Graham's Number
  392. Gram, unit of weight(mass)
  393. Graph
  394. Graph Paper
  395. Graphic Solutions to Quadratic Equations
  396. Graph Theory
  397. Grave, early unit for Kilogram
  398. Greater Than Symbol
  399. Greatest Common Factor, Using Euclid's Algorthm at Cut-the-Knot
  400. Greatest Integer Function
  401. Grebe Point
  402. Gross
  403. Gunter's chain"
  404. Gunter's scale"

  405. H
  406. Half, 1/2
  407. Half-Period
  408. Halma, board game
  409. Halmos symbol,
  410. Hamilton's Apportionment Method
  411. Hamiltonian Circuits
  412. Hanoi, Tower of Puzzle
  413. Harmonic Mean
  414. Harmonic Sequence
  415. Hash symbol, #
  416. Haversine
  417. Hawthorne Effect
  418. Heap Paradox
  419. Hectare
  420. Height
  421. HemiSphere
  422. Hein, Piet
  423. The Helen of Geometers
  424. Helium
  425. Helix
  426. Hermetic Seal
  427. Heron's Formula or Hero's Formula
  428. Heronian Mean
  429. Heron's Problem
  430. Heteroscedastic
  431. Hex, the game
  432. Hexdecimal
  433. Hinge
  434. Hippocrates Lune
  435. Hippocratic Oath
  436. Histogram /Histograph
  437. History, Notes on Math teaching
  438. Hoehn's Thm
  439. Hollerith Cards
  440. Homoscedastic
  441. Hoppity, old Enlish board game
  442. Horizon / Horizontal
  443. Hornbooks
  444. Horsepower
  445. Hour
  446. Houses and Utilities Problem (proof)
  447. Hubble (Unit of distance)
  448. Hundred
  449. Hyperbola
  450. Hyperbole
  451. Hypercube
  452. Hypocycloid of Four Cusps
  453. Hypocycloid of Three Cusps
  454. Hypodermic
  455. Hypotenuse

  456. I
  457. i for square root of -1
  458. identity and symbol ≡
  459. Ides
  460. Idiot
  461. IFF symbol
  462. Imaginary Numbers
  463. Incenter and Incircle
  464. Increase
  465. Increment
  466. Index
  467. Induction, Inductive Proof
  468. Inequality Symbols
  469. Infinitesimul
  470. Infinity
  471. Infinity Symbol
  472. Imperial Gallon
  473. Inscribe
  474. Int Function
  475. Integer
  476. Interpolate
  477. Interval
  478. interquartile range
  479. Inverse Sine or Sin-1
  480. Inverse Square Law
  481. Iodine
  482. Ion - creation of the term
  483. IQR
  484. Irrational Numbers
  485. Iridium
  486. Iris
  487. Ishango Bone
  488. Isogon - Isogonic Lines, Points, Symmetry
  489. Isometry
  490. Isomorphic
  491. Isomorphic symbol,
  492. Isoperimetric
  493. Isopleure, Isopleuron
  494. Isosceles
  495. Italian Method of Division

  496. J
  497. January
  498. Japanese Tangram type puzzle
  499. Jefferson's Apportionment Method
  500. Jerk
  501. Johnson's Theorem
  502. Josephus Problems
  503. Julia Set

  504. K
  505. Kaprekar Numbers
  506. Karat
  507. Kilogram Mass and Force
  508. Klein Bottle
  509. Kissing Circles Theorem
  510. Kite
  511. Knot, (Unit of speed)
  512. Knots and Knot Theory
  513. Kurschak's Theorem
  514. Kurtosis

  515. L
  516. Lame's Numbers
  517. Lattice Multiplication
  518. latus rectum
  519. lb, Pound
  520. Law of Cosines
  521. Law of Large Numbers
  522. Law of Sines
  523. Law of Tangents
  524. League (measure of distance)
  525. Leg
  526. Lemma
  527. Lemniscate
  528. Lemoine Point / Circles
  529. Lens (intersection of two circles)
  530. Leptokurtic
  531. Less Than Symbol
  532. l'Hospital's Rule
  533. Liar's Paradox
  534. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
  535. Lill Circle, A Graphic Solution to Quadratic Equations
  536. Limacon
  537. Limit
  538. Line
  539. Lissajous Figures
  540. ln for natural logarithm
  541. Loculus of Archimedes
  542. Locus
  543. Logarithm
  544. Log-line (instrument for nautical speed)
  545. Long Ton
  546. Lotka's Law
  547. Loxodrome
  548. Lozenge
  549. Lucas Sequence
  550. Ludolph's Number
  551. Lune
  552. Lurking Variables (statistics)

  553. M
  554. "m" for Slope
  555. Macron
  556. Magic Squares
  557. Magnetic Declanation Map (first)
  558. Magnitude
  559. Maltitudes
  560. Mantissa
  561. Matrix
  562. Mars
  563. Mathbooks, Early American
  564. Mathematics
  565. Mathot's Point
  566. Maximum
  567. Mean
  568. Mean Proportional
  569. Measure
  570. Measuring Four Gallons using a Five and Three Gallon Jug, some history (Blog)
  571. Medial Triangle
  572. Median (Origin & statistics)
  573. Medians of a Triangle
  574. Menelaus' Thm
  575. Mercator Projection, MAP
  576. Mercury
  577. Merels, the game
  578. Merhkat
  579. Meter
  580. Metric Ton
  581. Mil or Mill (1/1000)
  582. Mile
  583. Million
  584. Minor
  585. Minuend
  586. Minus
  587. Minute
  588. Miquel's Point & Theorem
  589. Miquel's Pentagon Theorem
  590. Mobius Strip
  591. Mode
  592. Modulus
  593. Mollweide Equations
  594. Monge's Theorem on common tangents of circles
  595. Monge's Point
  596. Monomial
  597. Monte Carlo Method
  598. Months and their Names
  599. Morley's Theorem
  600. Morris, (Nine Men's-) the game
  601. Moscow Papyrus
  602. Mu, , for the average
  603. Multiple Factorial
  604. multiplicand
  605. Multiplication (Ancient/Old methods)
  606. multiplier
  607. multiply
  608. Myriad